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About 130,000 Duquesne Light and Allegheny Power customers lost their electricity last night as the remnants of Hurricane Ike swept up the Ohio Valley. It was an odd storm: Wind gusts of up to 79 mph, 5 mph higher than hurricane force, were reported,...
Tags: hurricane, ike, after, Duquesne Light, storm, Brunot Island Power Station
Many refineries along the Gulf Coast shut down as a precaution and remained shuttered Sunday because of power outages, but Ike’s eye missed Houston’s center and the nation’s largest concentration of oil and gas refineries, the Associated Press reported.
Tags: prices, ike, gas, hurricane, oil, storm, coast, after, long, gas price
Day after day, ships longer than three football fields depart Great Lakes ports after picking up or delivering loads of iron ore, coal and other cargo. Reaching open water, crews wash the decks with high-powered hoses. It's called "cargo sweeping," because...
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Christmas and New Year's holidays, so the Endeavour mission in that case would be delayed until early next year. Ike, packing 110 mph winds, came ashore early Saturday near Galveston and churned by the space center as it made its way toward Houston...The...
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As Ike's hurricane-force winds began to subside, emergency responders were just starting to assess the damage around Galveston Saturday morning. At about 9:30 a.m. Saturday it was a "rough" night and her description of the current situation was bleak....
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For the second time in as many weeks, Ouachita Parish began accepting evacuees. This time they are fleeing Hurricane Ike. While Ouachita Parish took in thousands of evacuees earlier this month from Hurricane Gustav, parish emergency preparedness officials...
Power outages in the storm-weary Baton Rouge area increased Friday amid stiff winds triggered by Hurricane Ike. However, utility officials said they expected most of the newest power failures to be corrected fairly quickly, and much faster than damages...
7 PM Is Miller Park back into play for the Cubs-Astros series? MLB.com Milwaukee reported Friday night that Major League Baseball is reconsidering using the home of the Brewers to host the Cubs and Astros, whose series in Houston has been postponed by...
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An Orange County hospital worker allegedly pilfered $234,000 from two cafeteria cash registers during a five-year period. Fountain Valley police investigators say Bridget Ganier started helping herself to $50 to $100 a week back in September 2003, when...
The company said it is also trying to sell a hospital in Modesto, Calif. The hospital operations have been closed but the Company continues to operate a co-located 64-bed skilled nursing unit. The company expects to report a pretax loss ranging from $35...